Wretched Quotes
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
Terry Pratchett
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Samuel Hoffenstein
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Empedocles
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah Strong
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Samuel Butler
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjold
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Samuel Hopkins
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More